Senior Media Engineer

OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY

Fox Corporation

Under the FOX banner, we produce and distribute content through some of the world’s leading and most valued brands, including: FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations and Tubi Media Group. We empower a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise and strategic thinking.

JOB DESCRIPTION

ABOUT THE ROLE

Work closely with Project Management teams and Backend Services teams to solve challenging technical problems. In this role, you will help develop software, provide direction to other development teams, maintain good communication with business stakeholders. You will also help maintain uniformity across CI/CD solutions, testing solutions and solidify the deployment process. Additional, extending responsibilities to include supporting the delivery of digital content for LIVE events on TV broadcasts.

Tech Stack: Aspera, Signiant, Ansible, Python, Ruby, BASH, GitHub, VSC, RunDeck Orchestration, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, AWS, GCP, Postman, Slack, MySQL, Postgres, InfluxDB, MongoDB, Grafana, and Terraform.

A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Deploy and maintain accelerated file transfer solutions using Aspera, Signiant, File Catalyst, Massive, etc.

• Work with project managers and developers across different business environments to capture requirements and synergize solutions.

• Monitor the health of the Linux servers (Aspera/Signiant services) through both automated and manual processes.

• Develop tools to help increase functionality and efficiency of available media infrastructure.

• Maintain software repositories and apply software updates.

• Maintain documentation for procedures, configurations, and software programs.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

• Strong development skills in Infrastructure as code using GitHub, Ansible, Python scripting, and Terraform.

• Strong experience with configuration management tools using automation.

• Experience in DNS, Load Balancing, SSL, TCP/IP, UDP/IP, networking/routing, security and large scale event delivery.

• Strong understanding of software design/architecture and the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

• Experience with various AWS Services like EC2, Lambda, S3, API Gateway (RESTful API programming).

• Experience with performance, load, stress, and security testing tools.

• Solid hands-on-experience installing, configuring, and maintaining services such DNS, SAMBA, NFS, MySQL, Nginx, Linux Active Directory (AD) integration, IP-Tables, Ansible, etc.

• Participate in Tier 2 on-call rotation support for accelerated file transfer solutions using Aspera and Signiant applications.

NICE TO HAVE, BUT NOT A DEALBREAKER

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or equivalent

• Experience with Aspera or Signiant accelerated file transfer products.

• Excellent documentation skills, Lucid diagrams a plus

• Experience with streaming protocols (HLS), encoding (H.264), AWS Media Services, etc.

• Experience with media products such as TeleStream Vantage, EVS, ImageMagick, FFMPEG, VLC, etc.

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